Shelf of Shame #20

ARE YOU REALLY SURE THAT'S A GOOD IDEA...??

Skeen / Garner / Cartwright. Woodworking for Young Children. National Association for the Education of Young Children: Washington: 1984. (5th printing, 1997) 8vo, illustrated card covers, 86pp, many b&w illus.


Doubtless very well intentioned, this title might perhaps feel at home with other ill-advised works, such as "Flaming Torch Juggling for the Visually Impaired", "Venomous Snake Handling for Toddlers" and a cautionary tale about using daddy's power tools called "Little Johnny No-Arms".

But perhaps we are too quick to judge, after all, to quote Cosmo Kramer: "It's all supervised!" And to be sure, the book has a section on safety... on page 61.

First Aid follows a page later.


FOR FURTHER RESEARCH:
Woodworking Safety
NAYEC
Religious Snake Handling
Make Your Own Pie

Shelf of Shame # 19

I THINK ROGER MOORE ALREADY ATTEMPTED THIS JOKE, SIR...

Re-Entry. John Wesley White. Zondervan Publishing: Michigan: 1971. Mass Market Paperback, illus. card covers, 192 pp.


Seriously? I really do find it hard to believe that nowhere along the way to publishing this book did anybody notice the unfortunate combination of title and sub-title.

If the titular joke isn't enough (and by gosh, don't you think it should be?) then the chapter titles will, erm, drive the joke home. You know what I mean.

Theology & the Coming Christ
Science and Technology & the Coming Christ
The Church & the Coming Christ
Society & the Coming Christ
Philosophy & the Coming Christ
Politics & the Coming Christ
Preparation for His Coming

As an unfortunate segue, Zondervan Publishing has recently issued a book called "Sticky Faith". Ew.

... and the Reverend Ron Jeremy says "Amen".


For Further Research:
Much ado about Zondervan Publishing and more.
There is so much on The Second Coming, but THIS ONE seemed most entertaining.
The original joke from Moonraker, for better or for worse.

Porn Title Archive #5

March thru June 2011

The Queen Whorenet (June 26)
Mars Needs MILFs (June 19)
Source Chode (June 12)
Red, Riding a Hoodie (June 5)
Sex-Men: First Ass (May 29)
The Queen Mantern (May 22)
Dr. Stronglove: or How I Learned to Stop Jacking and Do the Bomb (May 15)
2069: A Face Odyssey (May 8)
The Filling (May 1)
Hairy Lynda (Apr 24)
Paths of Glory Hole (Apr 17)
Filler's Fist (Apr 10)
Hole-ita (Apr 3)
Full Frontal Jackoff (Mar 27)
Where the Sun Ain't Shining (Mar 20)
Thighs Wide Shut (Mar 13)
A Cockwork Orange (Mar 6)

Shelf of Shame #18

AND THE SOUND OF MY ZIPPER...

My Sheep Know My Voice. John Cox. Guardian Books: Belleville: 2003. Small softcover, illus. card covers, 136pp.

I don't care who you are, you've gotta know that title is funny... especially if your name is Cox.



Seriously, sometimes you people make this way too easy.


For Further Research:
Zoophilia

Shelf of Shame #17

YOU'D LIKE TO THINK THE AUTHOR WOULD BE JOSIAH ALLEN...

Marietta Holley. G.W. Dillingham: New York: 1905. 8vo. 471pp. + 5pp. publisher ads. Decorative brown boards w. red lettering to front and to spine.



The author is not Josiah Allen. Bow-chicka-bow-wow...

Turns out the author is Marietta Holley. Double-bow chicka-bow-wow...

No. The book does not live up to those expectations.

However, if you like gentle satire about the inequality of the sexes written in rustic dialect by an author described as "the female Mark Twain" (does that mean that Mark Twain is the male Marietta Holley...?? Hm.) then this IS the book for you.


For Further Research:
Everything you wanted to know about Marietta Holley.